Xie Tingzhou's voice made the Empress freeze, and then she suddenly looked up in the direction of the voice, but there was nothing above her.
Just as she thought she was hallucinating, Xie Tingzhou and Ye Zhen stepped into the hall.
The Empress instinctively stepped back, "You...you've come back?"
She had clearly tested the emperor, who said that the crown prince and his entourage would not arrive in the capital for several more days.
Even though everyone in the palace was following her orders, why didn't anyone come to tell her that the Crown Prince had returned?
"If I don't come back, how will I witness your ruthlessness?"
After saying this, Xie Tingzhou didn't even look at the Empress and went straight to the Emperor's bedside.
He reached out and touched the emperor's pulse, then frowned, and switched to his other hand, his brow furrowing with even greater doubt.
In the Empress's eyes, this meant that Xie Tingzhou's medical skills were inadequate and he couldn't diagnose what poison the Emperor had been poisoned with.
Indeed, the medicines she collected were extremely rare in the world. Xie Tingzhou had too many things to do every day and couldn't possibly spend too much time improving his medical skills.
She adjusted her expression and said, "No wonder your father suddenly fell into a coma. It turns out you were the one who did it. Stay away from your father and don't harm him."
The Crown Prince and Ye Zhen ruined her plans once again, and she truly resented them.
At that moment, the Empress completely forgot that the Crown Prince was her son; she only wanted to frame him, smear him, and make it difficult for him to inherit the throne.
Compared to the Crown Prince, Xie Qian, though stubborn, lacks power and has the Prince of Yan and his wife as easy targets. Once he has tasted the power, he will not be as resistant as he is now.
She didn't even dare to think that Xie Tingzhou's presence here meant that her people had likely been taken into custody and the plan had failed.
The Empress couldn't accept that she had lost before even truly beginning. Deceiving herself, she shouted outside, "Guards! Guards! The Crown Prince is plotting to assassinate His Majesty..."
"Smack!"
A crisp slap landed on the Empress's face, and Ye Zhen slapped her again with his other hand. "How can you be a mother, how can you be a wife? You're not even as good as an animal."
She didn't hold back, and the Empress was knocked to the ground. She covered her face in disbelief, "Ye Zhen, you bastard, how dare you hit me! I am your future mother-in-law!"
You ill-mannered, heartless little whore, I'll make sure you're torn to pieces and die a horrible death sooner or later.
These words were extremely malicious to Ye Zhen.
In her past life, she was dismembered by the Empress's son. Upon hearing this, Xie Tingzhou disregarded the Emperor and grabbed a decorative item from the Emperor's bedside table, smashing it into the Empress's mouth.
The Empress's mouth was full of blood, and several of her teeth were knocked out. She cursed Xie Tingzhou, "You beast! You beat your own mother for a woman! You deserve to be struck by lightning and die a horrible death..."
Before she could finish her rant, a deerskin boot kicked her in the mouth, knocking out two more teeth.
It was Ye Jinghong who kicked her.
Xie Tingzhou was worried about the emperor and planned to return to the capital on horseback first. Ye Zhen was also worried about him and wanted to go with him.
Ye Jinghong was also worried about her daughter, and besides, she was seething with anger and wanted to settle accounts with the Empress.
With his wife and daughters all going with Xie Tingzhou, Shi Yan, whose status in the family had dropped to the bottom, had no choice but to hold their hands and teleport the three of them together like a string of gourds.
As soon as they arrived at the city gate, they encountered the Marquis of Zhongyong leading Imperial Censor Wang and his entourage out of the capital. They quickly stopped them to inquire about the situation.
After listening to what Marquis Zhongyong said, Xie Tingzhou told him to go to the western suburbs camp to take command of the troops as originally planned, while he himself led Ye Zhen and his father-in-law and mother-in-law into the palace through a secret passage.
The four entered the palace and split into two groups: Xie Tingzhou and Ye Zhen came to check on the emperor's condition and to protect him.
Ye Jinghong and his companion went to deal with the Empress's people, but unexpectedly encountered Shi Wuxia in the palace. She had already figured out the situation in the palace, so Ye Jinghong thought of coming over to help his daughter and son-in-law.
I had just arrived when I heard the Queen's vicious curse.
She had already learned about Ye Zhen's past life from Yin Jiuniang, so how could she tolerate hearing this?
One kick wasn't enough, so he kicked her again, stomping the empress to the ground, taking off her shoes, and slapping her across the mouth repeatedly.
"Back when the border was in dire straits and my mother was about to give birth, what did you promise me when you asked me to go to war to defend against the enemy?"
You said my daughter is your daughter-in-law, the future Crown Princess of Dayuan, and that you will cherish her as your own daughter, making her the most noble lady in the capital, and never letting her suffer any grievances.
You said you would help me keep an eye on Ye Zhengqing and his wife, and make sure they didn't mistreat my child in the slightest. It was because of your promise that I dared to entrust my daughter to them.
But what did you do? If you were blind and didn't know they switched the items, I can forgive you, after all, as a mother, I was also deceived.
You had already suspected that Zhen'er had caused so much trouble in the capital, yet you stood by and did nothing. Now, you even dare to curse my daughter like this.
Back then, if I hadn't returned to Dayuan to destroy Canglang, my daughter would have been born next to her father. She would have been a noble princess of the Great Wei, pampered and cherished by the Shi family.
And you, you may not be able to remain the empress in peace. You know all this, yet you still dare to insult her like this.
"The mother of the nation, her words are like those of a shrew from the countryside, her heart is like a snake, she killed her husband and harmed her children, I wouldn't even dare to dirty my hands to hit her."
The empress's teeth were all gone, her face was swollen like a pig's head, and blood mixed with saliva spilled from the corners of her mouth, making her look completely unrecognizable.
Xie Qian watched all of this with indifference.
He had no feelings for the Empress to begin with, and now he was even more ashamed to have been born from such a woman's womb. At the same time, he was glad that he was rational enough not to be blinded by power.
Otherwise, it wouldn't just be the Empress who would have been beaten. He was once again grateful that he had been raised by his father and mother, who had given him enough love and taught him not to covet what did not belong to him.
At this moment, Xie Qian longed to return to Princess Yan's side.
The Empress, unaware of her youngest son's intentions, cursed, "Stop...stop...I am the Empress...Your beating of me is treason...it is rebellion...you should be punished as a family member...you should be executed by slow slicing..."
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